Ella Taylor

The Mighty, a boy's adventure story for everyone, opens with Cincinnati smokestacks, then sweeps us smartly into Arthurian legend. It's no stretch, for right from the word go British director Peter Chelsom, who made the popular Hear My Song and the highly regarded Funny Bones, works a nifty Junior-Gothic magic......

Antz, the suave first collaboration between DreamWorks and the computer-animation outfit PDI, is a charmer, complete with cute critters voiced by the ultrafamous, a love match between Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and a sly, vinegary script that's designed to keep the grown-ups happy while their offspring drool over the......

Anyone who has watched a close relative die will likely weep buckets over Carl Franklin's new movie, One True Thing. I'm giving away nothing: We know from the opening scene that Ellen Gulden (Renee Zellweger) has lost her middle-aged mother, Kate (Meryl Streep), to cancer. The fact that Kate pre-ordered......

An air of sobriety hangs over Rounders, as if director John Dahl had resolved to kick his giggly neo-noir habit and go straight, but without abandoning his usual materials. Dahl's films - elegant, transgressive, smart - are built around likable losers, ripe for the plucking by small-town thugs, crooked cops......

If Steven Spielberg's emotional intelligence matched his visual genius, his harrowing, passionately felt and honorably flawed new film might qualify for one of the greatest American movies ever made about World War II. Saving Private Ryan begins with a 24-minute opening sequence depicting, in horrifically intimate shorthand, the Allied invasion......

BUFFALO ’66 Written and directed by VINCENT GALLO Produced by CHRIS HANLEY Starring GALLO CHRISTINA RICCI ANJELICA HUSTON BEN GAZZARA KEVIN CORRIGAN and MICKEY ROURKE Released by Lions Gate Films At the Nuart MADELINE Directed by DAISY VON SCHERLER MAYER Written by MARK LEVIN and JENNIFER FLACKETT Based on the......

Scarlett: Oh Ashleh, Ashleh, ah lerve you, truly ah do. Ashley: It's no use, Scarlett. You're strong and mighty and modern, while I, I am nothing but a droopy feeb, fit only for Saint Melanie. Run along now with Rhett and make a fortune in the lumber trade while the......

Without its fabulous animation, Mulan would add up to little more than a serviceable variant on the Disney drill: Wasp-waisted proto-feminist heroine - aided by a cute critter or teapot, a court jester played by a famous voice, and several faithful flunkies who morph into drag queens for song-and-dance backup......

A 1984 for the millennium, The Truman Show opens with a fat hint at the nature of the game it's about to play. Then it backs off and gulls us, winking all the way, into a trusting innocence not unlike the innocence, laced with mounting unease, of its waggishly named......